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For the record, I would *not* advise hot-swapping IDE drives on a 2.4
kernel.  I tried this (using the bays from aforementioned shop in
Manchester, specifically marked hot-swappable on the box) and hosed a
filesystem.  From what I have read, hot swap IDE is not supported b/c
the kernel only flushes IDE buffers on shutdown.  Maybe 2.6 is
different--I haven't looked into it.